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I try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel.

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I wasn't a jazz player, but a classical musician, and I improvised arrangements of popular songs using classical motifs.

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Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.

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I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.

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I flirt all the time. I like men! I don't think we can do without them.

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I'm not a blues singer, I'm a diva.

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Desegregation is a joke.

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To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.

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I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.

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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: February 21st, 1933

Died: April 21st, 2003

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